Data Project Manager

Data Project Manager

Salary: circa £80,000

Locations: Norwich/ Birmingham /Bristol/ Manchester/ York/ Sheffield/ Leatherhead

Role Overview 

We are seeking a highly organised and experienced Data Project Manager to drive the successful delivery of our Post‑Acquisition Data Integration Programme. In this role, you will oversee the end‑to‑end execution of market‑ and function‑led data initiatives, ensuring business needs are translated into actionable delivery plans and executed efficiently.

You will establish and manage a centralised ‘single front door’ for all data delivery requests, maintain an integrated delivery roadmap, and provide day‑to‑day leadership across Business Analysis, Architecture, and Data Governance workstreams. This position requires both strategic thinking and strong operational discipline to ensure alignment, quality, and effective stakeholder engagement. The role reports to the Head of River Data Enablement.

Skills & Experience 

• Strong Data Project Management Expertise: Extensive experience delivering data integration, ingestion, modelling, and governance initiatives within complex programmes.
• Demand & Delivery Management: Proven ability to establish and run structured intake, prioritisation, and assessment processes for data‑related work.
• Leadership of Multi‑Disciplinary Teams: Demonstrated success managing Business Analysts, Architects, and Data Governance Specialists across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Technical Understanding of Data Disciplines: Solid grasp of data integration patterns, data modelling principles, data quality, and governance frameworks.
• Exceptional Planning & Stakeholder Skills: Highly organised, skilled in scheduling, dependency mapping, and communicating delivery status, risks, and issues to senior stakeholders.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary circa £80,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Harjot Kaur a call on 07353 138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com